Drama / Greece

Paragliding World Cup 2010 - Event 4 - Drama, Greece - 20th-26th June

Paragliding World Cup 2010 - Event 4
20th - 26th June 2010

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The Paragliding World Cup results from Drama,as they happen, can be found at
PARAGLIDING WORLD CUP RESULTS

and, courtesy of PGLıve.cz, you can also
View completed tasks as an animation

The track logs (IGC Files in ZIP format) from the 2009 events are here
IGC-ZIP Files

 PLEASE NOTE - We can only upload results when they are complete and the animations take, normally, until the next morning so if you are looking for todays results you may have to wait a little. As soon as they are available they will be included in the above links.

Paragliding World Cup Event 4 - Drama Greece - Final Video...

We are all on the way to San Potito, Italy - most of us will arrive this evening (Friday).

Philippe has another video from the Drama event - this time an interview with Luc Armant....

Text - Chris : Video - Philippe

Paragliding World Cup - Event 4 - Drama, Greece - Prizegiving Video

We are all on the road on the way to Italy - Philippe has finished editing the video of the Prizegiving - here it is...

Text by Chris : Video - Philippe

Paragliding World Cup - Event 4 - Drama, Greece - Podium Photos

The prizegiving is over and here are the photos of our winners this week.

The womens podium is first - top 3 from left to right are Keiko Hiraki (Japan / API Sky Asagiri)[2nd] - Seiko Fukuoka Naville (France / Les Passagers du Vent[1st] and Renata Kuhnova (Czech Republic)[3rd]

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Next comes the Open Podium. This is Jamie Messenger (U.K. / flyozone.com)[2nd], Thomas Brandlehner (Austria)[1st] and Luc Armant (France)[3rd].

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And finally our team podium - from the left these are Ozone[2nd], Parapente Mag[1st] and Gin Team[3rd]

team

This is what they were all competing for - the trophy table.

trophies

We hope you have enjoyed the coverage of this week's Paragliding World Cup competition. Next stop Italy...!

Text and photos by Chris

26th June 2010 - Drama, Greece - Final Results

All the pilots are back and downloaded and it is the end of our competition here in Drama.

The winner of today's task with a goal time of 2 hours 49 mins 46 seconds is Urban Valic (Slovenia / Mastercard Kovk ABAC)

First woman today with an overall distance of 46.56km is Regula Strasser (Switzerland / Biotech, Spaelti)

And the winning team today is Thomas Brandlehner, Alexander Schalber and Monica Ciurea - Parapente Mag

That brings us to the end of Event 4 of the 2010 Paragliding World Cup and the overall results of the competition are :-

In first place overall is Thomas Brandlehner (Austria) with a score of 3730 points.

Thomas

Winning woman this week, with a score of 2380 points, is Seiko Fukuoka Naville (France / Les Passagers du Vent)

Seiko

And the winning team for Event 4 - Drama, Greece is the same as our winning team today - Parapente Mag !

Prizegiving begins in just 45 minutes at 19:30 and will be followed by the final night pilot's party - the podium photos will be posted later today and the video will be along in a day or two (we have to hit the road tomorrow...)

Its been a great week here in Drama - we hope you have enjoyed the extra dimension offered by Live Tracking and Live Scoring - next event is in a week in San Potito, Italy.

Text by Chris

26th June 2010 - Drama, Greece - Day 7 - Task 5 - Task Times Set [12:25]

The times have been set and the task is running - window open was at 12:15 - the start is at 13:00

Enjoy !!

26th June 2010 - Drama, Greece - Day 7 - Task 5 - 78.5km Race to Goal [12:05]

The task is set. Today's race is a 78.5km Race to Goal - the live tracking system is running and the link for the Google Earth Map is HERE. Live scoring can be viewed on the Live Leader Board and the team placings can be monitored on the Team Leader Board.

No start time or window open time has been set yet.

Enjoy the race !! - here is the map

taskmap

26th June 2010 - Drama, Greece - Day 7 - Morning [09:30]

The last day has arrived and its a beautiful morning. Everything looks good for a final task and the competitors will soon be on their way to the launch. Live tracking will be running today and, as soon as we get details of a task, all the necessary links will be here...

There are three more videos this morning - the first is by one of our competitors - Dmitry Korolev, the others are from Philippe...

Text by Chris : Videos - Philippe / Dmitry K

25th June 2010 - Drama, Greece - Day 6 - Task 4 - Won by Thomas Brandlehner (Austria)

It has been a good task and, by most accounts, tough going for much of the route. Despite Rafal Lukos arriving first in goal, the task was won in a time of 1 hour 50 mins 59 seconds by Thomas Brandlehner as a result of leadout points.

First woman today with a goal time of 2 hours 3 minutes 35 seconds is Renata Kuhnova (Czechoslovakia).

And our winning team is Luc Armant, Andreas Malecki, Charles Cazaux and Seiko Fukuoka Naville - Ozone   

Congratulations to all our pilots - final day is tomorrow....

Text by Chris

25th June 2010 - Drama, Greece - Day 6 - Task 4 - News from Goal[15:30]

Anyone watching the live task would assume that Christoph Eder had won the task by a long margin - BUT - we have just heard from the goal field that he fell short of the line by just 5m !!!

Winner of the task is Rafal Lukos and the first woman (incorrectly shown on the LeaderBoard due to a technical problem) is Keiko Hiraki - landing just 5 mins ago [a correction is due here - it seems that Renata Kuhnova was in fact earlier in goal but was higher and had not been spotted]

The live leader board will change to show download results soon and the official results will be along later...

Text by Chris